red berries

Some things are so red and inviting that they beg to be tasted. These are fruits of some sort of hawthorn--you should have seen the thorns; it was painful even looking at them.

The fruits were sweet and flavorful, a consistency something like cherries, and there were five tiny seeds in a flower shape in the center.

I checked at home to see what you can do with hawthorn fruits, and it turns out all sorts of things (examples here), but it also turns out the seeds are poisonous, so I'm glad I didn...